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in the presidential campaign, republican mitt romney picked up new support after winning the illinois primary on tuesday. he won the endorsement of former florida governor jeb bush, who urged republicans to unite. in arbutus, maryland, romney said he got the word just before starting his campaign day. >> my cell phone rang and i looked at it and it just said jeb on it. i picked up the phone and it was jeb bush. and i didn't even have to ask, he said, mitt, i want to let you know that i'm endorsing you today and that was good news. >> sreenivasan: at the same time, a senior aide of his generated new criticism that romney will shed his conservative positions once he has the nomination wrapped up. eric fehrnstrom told cnn: that drew fire from rick santorum, in mandeville, louisiana which holds its primary on saturday. >> they think they have this you have an opportunity here in louisiana to make a very clear statement. you're not looking for someone who is the etch-a-sketch candidate, you're looking for someone who writes what they believe in stone and stays true to what they say. >> sre
in the presidential campaign, republican mitt romney picked up new support after winning the illinois primary on tuesday. he won the endorsement of former florida governor jeb bush, who urged republicans to unite. in arbutus, maryland, romney said he got the word just before starting his campaign day. >> my cell phone rang and i looked at it and it just said jeb on it. i picked up the phone and it was jeb bush. and i didn't even have to ask, he said, mitt, i want to let you know that i'm...
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finally, let me finish tonight with the romney ad, the romney aide rather who tells us romney's word is not his bond. we begin with mitt romney's etch-a-sketch problem. howard feinman, and mike a newcomer from "the boston globe" which of course is the hub of the universe up there. here it is again by the way, top romney aide eric fernstrom's line yesterday. >> good morning, sir it's fair to say john mccain was a more modern candidate than the ones that governor romney faces now. is there a concern that the pressure from santorum and gingrich might force the governor to tack so far to the right it would hurt him with moderate voters in the general election? >> i think he hit a reset campaign for the fall. almost like an etch-a-sketch you can shake it up and we start all over again. >> in other words like one of these things. an etch-a-sketch gaffe made just as much news in the papers as the jeb endorsement yesterday. here in the "washington post," "romney endorsed by jeb bush mocked over an aide's remark." "the new york times," "romney's day to relish is marred by aide's gaffe" and "t
finally, let me finish tonight with the romney ad, the romney aide rather who tells us romney's word is not his bond. we begin with mitt romney's etch-a-sketch problem. howard feinman, and mike a newcomer from "the boston globe" which of course is the hub of the universe up there. here it is again by the way, top romney aide eric fernstrom's line yesterday. >> good morning, sir it's fair to say john mccain was a more modern candidate than the ones that governor romney faces now....
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look at romney. his reliance on super pac. $3.5 million spent on media by the romney campaign. use a firm, a conglomerate american randall, we'll get into that. restore future, $10 million in media. basically, more than just about 3-1. >> the super pac money is all going into media, attack ads. >> that's all, yes. >> all negative advertising. something like 99% advertising the romney super pac spent and going after santorum, going after gingrich. what's interesting about a lot of the money, when you look at these expenditure reports, a lot of them are going into these llcs. limited liability corporations where you have very little transparency into who's the owners, who are the partners? who's getting -- >> trying to make it harder for us to see who's getting paid? we know -- you'll have, like, five consultants as partners of one thing. >> right. >> this got started. clinton did it with the november group back in the dpap bush did it with maverick strat jinchegy >> bigger and more pronounced than i've seen. totals are, in north of $15 million that the romney campaign paid for.
look at romney. his reliance on super pac. $3.5 million spent on media by the romney campaign. use a firm, a conglomerate american randall, we'll get into that. restore future, $10 million in media. basically, more than just about 3-1. >> the super pac money is all going into media, attack ads. >> that's all, yes. >> all negative advertising. something like 99% advertising the romney super pac spent and going after santorum, going after gingrich. what's interesting about a lot...
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may be mitt romney. freedom works the tea party movement saying this about romney candidacy. >> for us, the senate is key to moving policy in the country. if we can create caucus of the legislative entrepreneurs inside majority and recapture majority to the senate, they will move policy to the president's desk. if romney is in the white house it could be the most conservative president we have had. >> it's strange for minute minute to say he is excited, the word he use -- minute minute t -- demint tosay he is . and he has had quite the evolution. when rick santorum starts saying things that indicate he is out to get romney more than just to elect a republican, this is what newt gingrich started to say around the time he began to lose support. it becomes a battle of ego. you don't really want a republican conservative to stop a president obama. people start to wonder what you are really doing. that is a problem for santorum who endorsed romney four years ago. this is the end for santorum. he will try to t
may be mitt romney. freedom works the tea party movement saying this about romney candidacy. >> for us, the senate is key to moving policy in the country. if we can create caucus of the legislative entrepreneurs inside majority and recapture majority to the senate, they will move policy to the president's desk. if romney is in the white house it could be the most conservative president we have had. >> it's strange for minute minute to say he is excited, the word he use -- minute...
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mitt romney. mr. romney has, in fact, argued repeatedly that he supported a national health care plan based on what he did in massachusetts, including, specifically, the individual mandate that he now decries. he may find this politically inconvenient now, but that is the truth, and it's easily accessible by anybody with the google. and he still lies about it, all of the time, over and over again. this is not a normal amount of politician lying. mr. rom lies about himself, he lies about the president, he lies about policy. he lies about everything. it is beyond a normal amount of politician lying. >> while we've got $15 trillion of debt, he's said, look, i'm going to put another $1 trillion of debt for obama care. >> that is mitt romney lying. every congressional estimate shows that the president's health reform law actually cuts the definite by hundreds of billions of dollars. now, you cannot like it for other reasons, but mr. romney says all the time that health reform adds to the deficit when in on
mitt romney. mr. romney has, in fact, argued repeatedly that he supported a national health care plan based on what he did in massachusetts, including, specifically, the individual mandate that he now decries. he may find this politically inconvenient now, but that is the truth, and it's easily accessible by anybody with the google. and he still lies about it, all of the time, over and over again. this is not a normal amount of politician lying. mr. rom lies about himself, he lies about the...
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mitt romney winning 47% of the votes. the associated press estimating the take home and mitt romney 563 and 1144 needed to win. with voters not casting ballots and 89% of them not vote forgive romney democrat senator dick durbin was teed up for the comedy. >> you can draw a bigger crowd of greenbay packers in downtown chicago. >> and putting a damper on romney's day dealing cnn it would be no problem for his boss to appeal to moderates in november. >> i think he hit a reset button for the fall campaign. everything changes. it's like an etch-a-sketch. you can shake it up and we start all over again. >> this just in. romney saying his senior adviser's comments aside he will not be running as the etch-a-sketch man but a conservative republican in the general election if nominated. much more on his etch-a-sketch candidacy in this news hour. also potential to shake up the race jeb bush endorsing romney, although not in person. writing now is the time for the republicans to unite behind governor romney and take our message to a
mitt romney winning 47% of the votes. the associated press estimating the take home and mitt romney 563 and 1144 needed to win. with voters not casting ballots and 89% of them not vote forgive romney democrat senator dick durbin was teed up for the comedy. >> you can draw a bigger crowd of greenbay packers in downtown chicago. >> and putting a damper on romney's day dealing cnn it would be no problem for his boss to appeal to moderates in november. >> i think he hit a reset...
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romney" what do you make of this? you're not a columnist, right? so what is this guy's problem? it seems like he has an aide who is a truth teller. he went out and said the one thing that everybody has been saying for years about romney. he is an etch-a-sketch. what gets him elected governor of massachusetts, pro gay rights, pro health insurance, whatever. then he etch-a-sketch everything he has been saying to get into that job and then says i'm a right winger. >> right, and it brought to light the problems that romney has. yesterday santorum's aides were handing out etch-a-sketchs. so this is a big deal going forward. >> a reporter on the ropeline yesterday would not answer questions. romney came back out for a media availability with just one question to answer, and you can guess what that was about. here is how the candidate tried to explain the remark i would say unsuccessfully. >> organizationally, a general election campaign takes on a different profile. the issues i'm running on will be impactexactly the same.
romney" what do you make of this? you're not a columnist, right? so what is this guy's problem? it seems like he has an aide who is a truth teller. he went out and said the one thing that everybody has been saying for years about romney. he is an etch-a-sketch. what gets him elected governor of massachusetts, pro gay rights, pro health insurance, whatever. then he etch-a-sketch everything he has been saying to get into that job and then says i'm a right winger. >> right, and it...
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but they will stay in the campaign against romney rhetorically, and romney will have to extend the number of days and weeks that he caters to the conservative wing of his party preventing him from coming back to the middle early enough. and i think all of us might be underestimating the damage that's been done to the republican party among independents and moderate republicans who have looked at the rhetoric and the focus of these past six or seven weeks and have wondered, you know, who am i going to vote for? >> willie geist, let me ask you, six days from now, are we really going to be talking about an etch a sketch comment like everybody was talking about yesterday from one of mitt romney's advisers? or are we going to be talking about a huge illinois win and a jeb bush endorsement? >> he's been playing with an etch a sketch all morning, joe. you might be asking the wrong person. >> did you bring this in for me? >> i did not. >> we do have one on set. jeb bush, you have been saying this forever, if there's one endorsement that matters in this race above all others it's jeb bush. he gets
but they will stay in the campaign against romney rhetorically, and romney will have to extend the number of days and weeks that he caters to the conservative wing of his party preventing him from coming back to the middle early enough. and i think all of us might be underestimating the damage that's been done to the republican party among independents and moderate republicans who have looked at the rhetoric and the focus of these past six or seven weeks and have wondered, you know, who am i...
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was fired up about mitt romney. and liked the idea after hands-on governor. he watched him go through the campaign, go to the right on immigration. use it as a wedge against mccain. he didn't like it. didn't like it again. he has even been critical of the tone and rhetoric used on the issue of immigration. i think this endorsement is bowing to reality of the situation. when you know all of that backdrop, and you read the statement, i think it is kind ever telling. >> it is interesting he married a woman from mexico. who is hispanic. >> then his own record on issues involving hispanics is strong. a lot of appeal with hispanics and an example of the kind of republican who figures out how can you win over hispanic voters and not just cube an americans in florida. but also mexican americans. >> the statement released this morning, jeb bush said in part, primary elections held in 34 states and now the time for republicans to unite behind governor romney and take our message of fiscal conservative and i'm endorsing mitt r
was fired up about mitt romney. and liked the idea after hands-on governor. he watched him go through the campaign, go to the right on immigration. use it as a wedge against mccain. he didn't like it. didn't like it again. he has even been critical of the tone and rhetoric used on the issue of immigration. i think this endorsement is bowing to reality of the situation. when you know all of that backdrop, and you read the statement, i think it is kind ever telling. >> it is interesting he...
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mitt romney is our best chance. jon: if doug schoen, the democratic pollster calls the romney campaign and says hang in there, i'm sure, the santorum campaign, i'm sure they will take that call. >> absolutely. jon: doug, angela, thank you both. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. jenna: charges could be announced today against the american soldier accused of killing civilians in afghanistan. will he face the death penalty? what do we know about his defense strategy? we're going to go in depth next. there he is, gordon jones, poised at this moment to discover new plum amazins from sunsweet, the amazing alternative to raisins and cranberries with 50% more fiber, about half the sugar, and a way better glycemic index. yes, that's the stuff. he's clearly enjoying one of the planet's most amazing superfruits. amazin' yes, plum amazins, 100% fruit with so much more nutrition and taste it's simply, amazin'. hey, keep it down mate, you'll wake the kids. plum amazins. new, from sunsweet. jenna: new developments in the case ag
mitt romney is our best chance. jon: if doug schoen, the democratic pollster calls the romney campaign and says hang in there, i'm sure, the santorum campaign, i'm sure they will take that call. >> absolutely. jon: doug, angela, thank you both. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. jenna: charges could be announced today against the american soldier accused of killing civilians in afghanistan. will he face the death penalty? what do we know about his defense strategy? we're...
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romney is likely to be tnominee. they are seizing on anything they can to try to reverse what looks like mitt romney's trudging to the delegates he needs to become the party's nominee. so it's a little bit of romney stepping on his own message and a little bit of those guys seizing what they can. >> sure. you could say it's desperation tactics by those who see their chance, their hopes for the nominati nomination, slipping. but at the same time the romney campaign, one would argue, inflicted this wound on itself. the campaign today, a statement saying you know you have reached the end after long hard fought campaign when your opponents are waving around children's toys at campaign events. arguably also there's something that mitt romney said that perhaps they should have seized on. listen to what he said about t.a.r.p. >> there was a fear that the whole economic system of america would collapse, that all of our banks, or virtually all, would go out of business. in that circumstance president bush and hank paulson sai
romney is likely to be tnominee. they are seizing on anything they can to try to reverse what looks like mitt romney's trudging to the delegates he needs to become the party's nominee. so it's a little bit of romney stepping on his own message and a little bit of those guys seizing what they can. >> sure. you could say it's desperation tactics by those who see their chance, their hopes for the nominati nomination, slipping. but at the same time the romney campaign, one would argue,...
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romney. >> the degree to which mr. romney lies all the time about all sorts of stuff and doesn't care when he gets caught is maybe the single most notable thing about his campaign. >>> hi, everyone. the "news nation" is following news right now in the trayvon martin shooting case. the city of sanford, florida just announced the city manager will hold a news conference at 3:30 this afternoon. there's no word on the topic yet but it comes less than 24 hours after the city commission gave a vote of no confidence to its police chief. the vote was 3-2. the city manager says he will be giving an update on the events surrounding the investigation. we'll bring you the latest developments. meanwhile a massive rally planned in sanford has been moved to another location because so many people are now expected to attend. those are pictures from atlanta right before dozens of churchgoers packed buses bound for sanford this morning. tonight's rally organized by the reverend al sharpton is expected to be so large. it was moved to nea
romney. >> the degree to which mr. romney lies all the time about all sorts of stuff and doesn't care when he gets caught is maybe the single most notable thing about his campaign. >>> hi, everyone. the "news nation" is following news right now in the trayvon martin shooting case. the city of sanford, florida just announced the city manager will hold a news conference at 3:30 this afternoon. there's no word on the topic yet but it comes less than 24 hours after the city...
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he versus romney. and santorum wants gingrich and paul off the track, in the remaining 26 primaries and caucuses. so their votes will go to him. now the pot is being split four ways. if it were a two-way race, santorum versus romney, santorum says he would beat romney. but newt gingrich says emphatically he is not quitting the primary track. >> the fact is in both states the conservative candidate has nearly 70% of the vote. >> so gingrich is staying in the race all the way to the republican national convention, august 27th to 30, five minutes from now, in tampa, florida, where the delegates and the super-delegates will select the candidate and where romney's ive spear -- are effect to carriers who make the convention. question, the prongs seems to be if one of two conservatives in the race was out, the other would reap the dividend in the form of a united conservative vote. is that presumption warranted? if gingrich were to leave the race, all of that vote would go to as he presents the case santorum?
he versus romney. and santorum wants gingrich and paul off the track, in the remaining 26 primaries and caucuses. so their votes will go to him. now the pot is being split four ways. if it were a two-way race, santorum versus romney, santorum says he would beat romney. but newt gingrich says emphatically he is not quitting the primary track. >> the fact is in both states the conservative candidate has nearly 70% of the vote. >> so gingrich is staying in the race all the way to the...
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romney fully supported it yesterday. with the cuts to medicare and the cuts to income supports and the slashing of investmenenn th th futur fur like te patathh to p parity t ttt ryann says, ii j jtt n' sen'hoseha t cant helelhihi t t general. >> it's only if you don't care about the deficit. all obama has said is the solution to our problem is taxing the rich -- >> no he said jobs cure deficit, and he has created jobs many more so than we were hemorrhages when george bush was president. >> under his own budget, he says that the deficit continues to climb, and it continues to climb at trillions of dollars more than it does under the ryan bill -- >> what is the best way -- what is the rational way to deal with the deficit long term while not hurting our recovery? is there a rational way that -- >> yes. >> i agree. but slashing medicare or privatizing medicare or slashing 30% out of medicaid by block granting it to the states and not increasing it with the rate of inflation, i know what will happen. people will get cut off
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anybody but romney and then anybody but obama. >> okay, so if -- >> really, if romney gets the nomination, maybe the other tea partiers on the more conservative side will as he said it hold their noses and vote for mitt. >> well, of course, they're going to hold their nose and vote for mitt. you have to understand the tea party doesn't have a specific candidate. nobody fits the bill completely. that's why we're focused on senate races, keeping the house, control the senate, control of the house, and if mitt romney is the nominee and that's still an if, let's make sure we stick the conservative principles that allow him to stick to conservative principles. >> he is the tea party -- can we say the tea party? as you just implied, the tea party is hundreds of groups all over the country with different visions, different people. is it cohesive enough to even have the kind of impact you're talking about? >> of course. and to say anything otherwise is false. the tea party is fully prepared and fully actualized in feeding statism and ending the slide of big-government spending. if we have mitt ro
anybody but romney and then anybody but obama. >> okay, so if -- >> really, if romney gets the nomination, maybe the other tea partiers on the more conservative side will as he said it hold their noses and vote for mitt. >> well, of course, they're going to hold their nose and vote for mitt. you have to understand the tea party doesn't have a specific candidate. nobody fits the bill completely. that's why we're focused on senate races, keeping the house, control the senate,...
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that is mitt romney's sub text. he's been here, there and everywhere across the political spectrum. >> whether this was a deliberate campaign strategy to send a message that we'll come back to the left after the nomination. >> as a writer, i have to give eric bernstrom some credit, he had a very vibrant image that mitt romney's opponents haven't been able to come up with. it's been such an incredible image, like larry said, those suspicions that people have about romney. >> the people who vote in the largest numbers, are the people who grew up using an etch a sketch. i'm not sure children these days know very much about it, but it was part of our child hoods, right? >> i always tell people the etch a sketch taught me that i had no artistic ability whatsoever. so i'm very grateful. >> i'm sure this happened on the heels of the jeb bush endorseme endorsement. and larry you tweeted about it. a popular florida ex-governor with a latino wife and you got tons of responses, didn't you? >> i did. i was surprised, it kind of
that is mitt romney's sub text. he's been here, there and everywhere across the political spectrum. >> whether this was a deliberate campaign strategy to send a message that we'll come back to the left after the nomination. >> as a writer, i have to give eric bernstrom some credit, he had a very vibrant image that mitt romney's opponents haven't been able to come up with. it's been such an incredible image, like larry said, those suspicions that people have about romney. >>...
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>> the reason we're talking about this is that mitt romney's problem has always been mitt romney from the beginning, because people can't get comfortable with where he stands on the issues, he's running as a conservative, and one of his chief campaign advisors sort of dated that he was ready to flip-flop back around and revert to his own positions. people aren't sure what they're getting when they lift the hood and check out mitt romney. that's why we're talking about it. it's about that nobody really knows who romney is and what he stands for. >> we aren't surprised that our opponents are hysterical over it. they're just grasping at straws. are they just grasping at straws? >> whoever was at the top of the polls was drawing a lot of fire, so there is a little bit of that. but, again, i think because this offhanded comment really reiterated a narrative that i had been going on about romney for quite a while. in louisiana this weekend, at of conservatives there, so i think, you know, for santorum, he's hoping he can help them with that base. >> let's go out to sang for rum on the campa
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does the romney campaign, because there have been several events over recent weeks where mitt romney said something which ends up being the story and getting the attention the next day, whether it's comments about the money or things along that line. now you have this comment ain't basically feeds right into the hands of those who want to call him a flip-flopper. saying that you can take the etch-a sketch and shake it up and you have a brand-new story. it ends up becoming the story. is that a misstep for the campaign? >> you say things that are as dumb as rick santorum saying he's not concerned about unemployment. you say things as dumb as rick santorum's spouting off when he went down to puerto rico, that happens in campaigns. there is a difference, however, between general elections and primary elections. in primaries you're running in one state or a handful of states vet. in general rehrebgs general elections you're running simultaneously. you have to have different resources and a different network of communications. martha: the question that was asked, the question was whether o
does the romney campaign, because there have been several events over recent weeks where mitt romney said something which ends up being the story and getting the attention the next day, whether it's comments about the money or things along that line. now you have this comment ain't basically feeds right into the hands of those who want to call him a flip-flopper. saying that you can take the etch-a sketch and shake it up and you have a brand-new story. it ends up becoming the story. is that a...
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remember how romney campaigned in the beginning of this campaign? which is he ran against barack obama and didn't pay much attention to his opponents. i think he's going back to that, wolf. he's treating rick santorum as more of an annoyance than an opponent. listen to what he said today. >> this president promised to cut the deficit in half. he's doubled it. he told us he'd get back to work and that unemployment would be below 8% and it hasn't been below 8% and he said he'd cut taxes for middle income taxpayers. that hasn't happened either and this man is out of ideas and out of excuses and in 2012 we'll make sure we get him out of office. >> so while mitt romney continues to talk about barack obama, the campaign and its surrogates are still talking about rick santorum more and more as the spoiler. there was a campaign memo that came out today, wolf, and it was quite tough. it said that santorum is, quote, becoming the most valuable player on president obama's team, that is if he continues to drag this out. so they're calling him a spoiler. get rea
remember how romney campaigned in the beginning of this campaign? which is he ran against barack obama and didn't pay much attention to his opponents. i think he's going back to that, wolf. he's treating rick santorum as more of an annoyance than an opponent. listen to what he said today. >> this president promised to cut the deficit in half. he's doubled it. he told us he'd get back to work and that unemployment would be below 8% and it hasn't been below 8% and he said he'd cut taxes for...
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one step back for the romney campaign. the remark a top adviser might wish he could take back. >>> mean season. the downside of early summer. why millions are suffering through this otherwise pleasant arrival of warm weather. >>> saints and sinners. tonight, the shot hurt around the world of sports. >>> and the boomtown. what is that shaking homes and nerves, keeping all the people up at night? the mystery in a small midwestern town. "nightly news" begins now. >>> good evening. they are driven by a social media campaign, by mainstream media coverage, by sadness, and just plain outrage at the thought that an innocent teenager was killed in cold blood outside of his father's home in florida. to show you the level of concern over this case in florida, this is a rally under way tonight here in new york. national attention has now come crashing down on the case of trayvon martin. he was 17 years old. he was encountered by a local neighborhood watch volunteer who unlike a lot of others in neighborhoods across this country, had a
one step back for the romney campaign. the remark a top adviser might wish he could take back. >>> mean season. the downside of early summer. why millions are suffering through this otherwise pleasant arrival of warm weather. >>> saints and sinners. tonight, the shot hurt around the world of sports. >>> and the boomtown. what is that shaking homes and nerves, keeping all the people up at night? the mystery in a small midwestern town. "nightly news" begins...
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romney going up to capitol hill. so far senator demitt said he won't endorse romney but he would be excite fire department he were the anymore knee. that's a step in the 9 right direction. also romney met with some of the lawmakers in wisconsin. >> all right. live in washington for us tonight. >>> romney may not be out and about but ann romney the latest figure to weigh in on a controversial comment that after robert deniro made. he reportedly asked now do you really think our country is ready for a white -- [inaudible] last night ann was asked about that. >> that's take for what it is. we are all overreacting to somebody saying making it so difficult which means we have to watch every word that we say. we can't be spontaneous, we can't be funny. i will tell new politics -- the fastest way to get in trouble is to make a joke. i think he has just learned that. >> she may be right. he has apologizes for the joke issuing a statement saying his remarks are spoken with jest and weren't meant to offend orem brass anyone. >
romney going up to capitol hill. so far senator demitt said he won't endorse romney but he would be excite fire department he were the anymore knee. that's a step in the 9 right direction. also romney met with some of the lawmakers in wisconsin. >> all right. live in washington for us tonight. >>> romney may not be out and about but ann romney the latest figure to weigh in on a controversial comment that after robert deniro made. he reportedly asked now do you really think our...
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romney wins big in illinois. it is announced today that jeb bush is going to endorse him or has endorsed him. newt gingrich doesn't have any money left. he is actually running a deficit now. rick santorum, i'm not quite sure where he is. so all in all you say? >> well, this race is almost over. romney is half of where he needs to get to get the nomination and he has got a series of winner take it all states. and headline with california and new york which is in effect winner take pennsylvania. >> bill: almost impossible. >> i don't give him all of those. it's almost impossible for him to do it. >> bill: let's assume going forward it is going to be mitt romney versus barack obama. now, today romney guy made another mistake. he was asked about the governor being driven to the right in the primary process and the guy said, you know, that always happens and then in the general election you go back to the middle. which everybody knows is true. but, you know, you don't say that because as soon as he said that gingrich
romney wins big in illinois. it is announced today that jeb bush is going to endorse him or has endorsed him. newt gingrich doesn't have any money left. he is actually running a deficit now. rick santorum, i'm not quite sure where he is. so all in all you say? >> well, this race is almost over. romney is half of where he needs to get to get the nomination and he has got a series of winner take it all states. and headline with california and new york which is in effect winner take...
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romney changes his positions to fit his political needs. gingrich and santorum used the etch-a-sketch as props. >> given everybody's fears of romney's flip-flops to have his communications director say to all of us, if we are dumb enough to nominate him, he'll move back to the left. triggers everything people are worried about. they don't have the decency to wait until they get the nomination. i think having an etch-a-sketch as your campaign model raises every doubt about where we are going. now, this is a spare etch-a-sketch, so i'm going to give it to you to play with. all right? do you want it? >> sure. >> she's ready. [ applause ] >> she could now be a presidential candidate. >> had mitt romney been around at the time we were drafting our constitution, he would have shook it up after it was approved to rewrite it. we are talking about big things here, folks. this isn't a joke or a game. reset this race. give us a chance to have a candidate who stands firmly on the rock of freedom, not on the sands of an etch-a-sketch. >> oh, boy. santor
romney changes his positions to fit his political needs. gingrich and santorum used the etch-a-sketch as props. >> given everybody's fears of romney's flip-flops to have his communications director say to all of us, if we are dumb enough to nominate him, he'll move back to the left. triggers everything people are worried about. they don't have the decency to wait until they get the nomination. i think having an etch-a-sketch as your campaign model raises every doubt about where we are...
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romney wins big in illinois. it is announced today that jeb bush is going to endorse him or has endorsed him. newt gingrich doesn't have any money left. he is actually running a deficit now. rick santorum, i'm not quite sure where he is. so all in all you say? >> well, this race is almost over. romney is half of where he needs to get to get the nomination and he has got a series of winner take it all states. and headline with california and new york which is in effect winner take pennsylvania. >> bill: almost impossible. >> i don't give him all of those. it's almost impossible for him to do it. >> bill: let's assume going forward it is going to be mitt romney versus barack obama. now, today romney guy made another mistake. he was asked about the governor being driven to the right in the primary process and the guy said, you know, that always happens and then in the general election you go back to the middle. which everybody knows is true. but, you know, you don't say that because as soon as he said that gingrich
romney wins big in illinois. it is announced today that jeb bush is going to endorse him or has endorsed him. newt gingrich doesn't have any money left. he is actually running a deficit now. rick santorum, i'm not quite sure where he is. so all in all you say? >> well, this race is almost over. romney is half of where he needs to get to get the nomination and he has got a series of winner take it all states. and headline with california and new york which is in effect winner take...
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campaign. >> ladies and gentlemen, governor, soon to be president, mitt romney. >> mitt romney arrived in arbutus press from an illinois victory and just hours after receiving an endorsement from jenna bush. he hunkered down to talk about the issues most important to maryland republicans. >> fixing the economy, and getting the debt under control. >> when it comes to improving the economy and job growth, romney cited his experience in the private sector as well as the need to protect individual freedom. >> freedom to pursue the dream of starting a business and taking their career in a direction that supports their family and they are able to hire other people. next he answered several questions from a crowd on everything ranging from the economy to foreign policy to health care reform. >> let's change the tax code so you get the same deduction your employer got. that way you can buy your own insurance, and then you can pick policies that work for you and the kind of coverage you want. >> a line of supporters waiting to see the gop hopeful wrapped around the building. >> i voted for obam
campaign. >> ladies and gentlemen, governor, soon to be president, mitt romney. >> mitt romney arrived in arbutus press from an illinois victory and just hours after receiving an endorsement from jenna bush. he hunkered down to talk about the issues most important to maryland republicans. >> fixing the economy, and getting the debt under control. >> when it comes to improving the economy and job growth, romney cited his experience in the private sector as well as the...
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romney, 50-plus is 34%. santorum gets 38% for the 35-49 and paul not surprisingly strong among younger voters, 18-34. what do you make of the 4.2 million figure. >> it's a communication mechanism for them. it was new and there was buzz. now it's plodding along. it may not be fascinating to the average vort but it's a force multiplier for them. when they drop new voos like the long 17-minute ad they put it out to the networks. they have 25 million facebook friends. they post that. those people are sharing it. i spoke to a person in the web department last week for an article that is at the nation.com where they said they had their highest traffic day of the campaign this year, when they put that video up from web streaming. who is streaming as you point out, alex. it's not 25-year-old bloggers, it's people over 50, who want to get re-ignited. some will share that. is that more valuable than knocking on someone's door, doesn't matter because they are doing both. >> i want to play this ad that the obama campaig
romney, 50-plus is 34%. santorum gets 38% for the 35-49 and paul not surprisingly strong among younger voters, 18-34. what do you make of the 4.2 million figure. >> it's a communication mechanism for them. it was new and there was buzz. now it's plodding along. it may not be fascinating to the average vort but it's a force multiplier for them. when they drop new voos like the long 17-minute ad they put it out to the networks. they have 25 million facebook friends. they post that. those...
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he's going to hurt romney. romney is going to win this race winning fewer states than any republican nominee since gerald ford in 1976. he's going to win fewer than mccain won who won 31. >> the big question becomes and what does that mean for november? if he is the nominee, ultimate question becomes how does this primary battle really affect his chances going into a general election? what does polling show on that? >> truth of the matter is i don't think that the religious base of the republican party that is keeping santorum in this race denying support for romney, i don't think they have any place to go in the fall and i think the electorate will polarize and it will be a close race and those folks will come out for romney. >> curious thing has happened of course with the conversation that we were having yesterday where basically the comeback to the etch a sketch flak was that governor romney will not change his position. they were talking about reframing a campaign they said in their clarification but now t
he's going to hurt romney. romney is going to win this race winning fewer states than any republican nominee since gerald ford in 1976. he's going to win fewer than mccain won who won 31. >> the big question becomes and what does that mean for november? if he is the nominee, ultimate question becomes how does this primary battle really affect his chances going into a general election? what does polling show on that? >> truth of the matter is i don't think that the religious base of...
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romney's rivals play up the etch a sketch misstep? and a series of deadly shootings is dead after an intense 30 hour siege. we'll get you fully updated on that. i'm thomas roberts and topping the agenda tonight. the outrage and the calls for justice, tonight a rally in florida is going to be led by the reverend al sharpton that's expected to draw thousands, an unarmed teen gunned down in a gated community after walking to the store to buy skittles and an iced tea. over a,hand gathered on the streets of new york city for a million hoodie march. >> i want to stand up for what's right. this is not about a black and white thing, this is not a right or wrong thing. >> just for trayvon. >> today marks 26 days since trayvon was shot and killed by george zimmerman who's actions that night have been under scrutiny ever since, he remains a free man and he still has a gun. today sanford's police chief received a vote of no confidence and even sanford's chief of police is apologizing for a lack of investigation. >> i want everybody to know that i
romney's rivals play up the etch a sketch misstep? and a series of deadly shootings is dead after an intense 30 hour siege. we'll get you fully updated on that. i'm thomas roberts and topping the agenda tonight. the outrage and the calls for justice, tonight a rally in florida is going to be led by the reverend al sharpton that's expected to draw thousands, an unarmed teen gunned down in a gated community after walking to the store to buy skittles and an iced tea. over a,hand gathered on the...
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romney plans to erase his focus. like you shake an etch-a-sketch. >> he said you just take, turn it over, shake it and then you start all over. >> mocking romney as a fake conservative, which he rushed to deny. >> the issues i'm running on will be exactly the same. i'm running as a conservative republican. >> newt gingrich joined the attack. >> so here's governor romney's staff. they don't have the decency to wait until they get the nomination to explain to us how they'll sell us out. >> and santorum had the win-man to try to shoot romney down. >> city commissioners in stanford, florida, have voted no confidence in the police chief over his investigation in the controversial shooting death of a black teenager. three of five commissioners voted against the chief with one demanding he resign in the wake of a killing of an unarmed 17-year-old trayvon martin. the city manager who has the actual authority to fire the chief says he would take the vote into consideration. >>> in new york city, hundreds march to demand justi
romney plans to erase his focus. like you shake an etch-a-sketch. >> he said you just take, turn it over, shake it and then you start all over. >> mocking romney as a fake conservative, which he rushed to deny. >> the issues i'm running on will be exactly the same. i'm running as a conservative republican. >> newt gingrich joined the attack. >> so here's governor romney's staff. they don't have the decency to wait until they get the nomination to explain to us how...